H.P. Is Said to Have Studied Spying on Newsrooms — Hewlett-Packard conducted feasibility studies on planting spies in news bureaus of two major publications as part of an investigation of leaks from its board, an individual briefed on the company's review of the operation said yesterday.

Extensive Spying Found At HP — Feb. Report Sent to 4 Senior Executives — The Hewlett-Packard Co. spying effort that has sparked criminal investigations was wide-ranging and included physical surveillance, photographs and spyware sent via e-mail, and it also targeted wives and other relatives …

Panasonic May Relaunch Connexion — Connexion is shutting down, but Panasonic's avionics division may step in: This is not a sale of assets, but rather Panasonic Avionics Corporation may use Connexion by Boeing's general approach in a way that would allow airlines that have already deployed Connexion …

Yahoo goes Current with Vlogging — So you think you think you can vlog, huh? Newcomers like PodTech and Rocketboom now have a bully in their sandbox, with Yahoo aping online video shows in a new partnership with Current TV launched Tuesday night. — Yahoo Current certainly has access to star power …

Journalism goes pro-am — Today I am announcing at Comment is free and PressThink, my blog, that Reuters is giving $100,000 to NewAssignment.Net. That's the experiment I plan to launch next year with others who think there is something to the idea of open source journalism …

YHOOuch — On July 20th, I blogged that I was going to buy Yahoo (YHOO). I did just that and was up 15% on the trade until yesterday when Terry Semel announced that the Sept quarter is going to be at the low end of the range on revenues and earnings. The stock is back down below $26, and my 15% gain is up in smoke.

Why I hate Evite — (Editor's note: This one resonated with us. And since Auren's pieces so far have been well liked, we're going with it.) — Like some of you, I get a lot of Evites. In fact, too many. In the past 8 months alone, I received 228 Evites. Annually that's 342 Evites - almost one a day!!!

Web 2.0 Winners and Losers — A few weeks ago, I implored readers of the Monkey Bites blog to sumbit their votes for the best and worst Web 2.0 sites out there. — I asked them to build a list of their own can't-live-without-it and oh-please-make-it-stop destinations.

Dell battery explodes at Yahoo HQ, hundreds evacuate — We just got word that a Yahoo employee's laptop went up in flames today at their Mission College campus down in Silicon Valley, causing hundreds of Yahoo employees to be evacuated from an 8-story building.

Google Base Gets A Redesign And Loses A Search Box — Bookmark This: del.icio.us - Digg it - Furl - reddit - Spurl - Yahoo MyWeb — Google Base has revamped their homepage and it doesn't seem that different to me. In fact, one thing that they did do was remove the search box which really puzzles me.

Challenging why (and how) people tag things — One of the more interesting hacks at Yahoo! Hack Day last week was a game that challenged the notion of tagging. — How effective is tagging for recall? Can you remember what you tagged any given item? This question gets right to an important issue.

Stunning photo site, Zooomr, releases Zmail & much more — Zooomr, the photo start-up that has galloped ahead of everyone else in offering edgy photo tagging and sharing techniques, is about to release its latest feature: Zmail. — Zmail, an internal messaging system for the site …

Apple Support docs address some iTunes 7 bugs — Apple has begun publishing tech support documents to address some reported bugs in iTunes 7. — The release of the software generated the usual wave of fault reports, mainly (but not exclusively) from Windows users of the application.